Ya-lin Huang
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYa-lin Huang is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience building scalable web backend and infrastructure systems. With a PhD in Computer Science, she blends rigorous research roots—distributed simulation and statistical analysis—with hands-on production work at Netflix and Yelp, where she redesigned dependency management and built resilient ownership and caching architectures using Hollow. She focuses on minimizing cognitive load for developers and operators, enabling safe incremental improvements that avoid service interruption. Proficient in Kotlin, Python, C/C++, and Linux, she has deep expertise in algorithms, data structures, and statistical data analysis applied to large-scale systems. An understated strength is her track record of turning research-grade ideas into production-safe tooling—like containerized MapReduce and end-to-end testing sandboxes—that close the gap between development and production.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Network Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Network Engineering at National Chiao Tung UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, Mandarin, English
Github Skills (74)
javascript10
sensu10
npm-cli10
yelp10
nodejs10
npm10
uwsgi9
paas9
k8s9
infrastructure9
application-server9
amazon-web-services9
chronos9
docker9
java9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
yalinhuang/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - May 2021
Opinionated dotfiles for Mac OS with zsh
Contributions:14 pushes in 2 years 7 months
mac-osmacasdfdotfilesmacos
smallredbean/pgctl
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
golangplayground
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